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読む, よむ
Godan verb, Transitive
1. to read
2. to recite (e.g. a sutra), to chant
3. to predict, to guess, to forecast, to read (someone's thoughts), to see (e.g. into someone's heart), to divine
4. to pronounce, to read (e.g. a kanji)
5. to decipher, to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.), to tell (the time)
彼女の心の動きを読むことさえできなかった。
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詠む, よむ
Godan verb, Transitive
1. to compose (a Japanese poem), to write, to use as the theme of a poem
2. to recite (e.g. a poem), to chant, to intone
その詩は無名の著者が詠んだ。
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サバ読む, 鯖読む, さばよむ
Expression, Godan verb, See サバを読む, Idiomatic expression
to manipulate figures to one's advantage, to count wrongly on purpose, to inflate or deflate one's age
サバを読む, 鯖を読む, さばをよむ
Expression, Godan verb, Idiomatic expression
to manipulate figures to one's advantage, to count wrongly on purpose, to inflate or deflate one's age
空気を読む, くうきをよむ
Expression, Godan verb
to read the situation, to sense the mood, to read the room
心を読む, こころを読む, こころをよむ
Expression, Godan verb, Idiomatic expression, usu. ～の...
to read (someone's) thoughts, to guess what (someone) is thinking
門前の小僧習わぬ経を読む, もんぜんのこぞうならわぬきょうをよむ
Expression, Godan verb, Proverb
you learn, without realising it, from what is around you, a shop-boy near the temple gate will recite sutras untaught